New legible – a new typeface based on Wim Crouwels new alphabet
I saw an interview with Wim Crouwell the other day on helvetica the movie. He mentioned that it was not uncommon in the 1990’s for designers to use elements of his new alphabet, but editing specific characters to make it slightly more legible. This sounded like great fun, so with the help of fontstruct, the very cool font constructing website, I had a go. Its called new legible, you can download it by clicking the link here. I love new alphabet, and wanted a practical version I could use for posters and headers. Its quite different with each character kept as simple as possible, whilst true to its classic form.
Anyway, would love some feedback, so let me know what you think? Am getting some of the posters printed so will put a post up to see if anyone wants one. Alternatively drop me an email on the contact page.